Western appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1885-18??, 1887-11-26

OLG a 1Gu d1ls lGRllan @1FOrknl1n t9u Gown the
shaft nine hundred feet and was dashed to
pieces, and three men at.the Anvil mine ct
Bessemer, Mich. met the same fate
B Al Ludlow. Ky. !, the Cincinnati Southern
railway shops were destroyed by fire on Tho
18th Loss, 81 20, 600
FOREST fires were raging on the 18th in
the vicinity of Hope. Ark, and in the hills
and bottoms Of the Red and Sulphur rivers
Many farm-houses and out hui dings had
been destroyed, and numbers OF hogs and
cattle had been burned to death. At Little
Rock the smoke was almost suffocating, and
unless rain speedily fell the losses through
out the State would be very heavy. lA
= MISS FRANCES 3. WILLARD was reelected
president Of the W. G. T. q. at the National
convention of that order at Nashville.
Tenn, on the 18Th and the old board was
honored in like manner
AT the door Of the local Department. Of the
Columbus (O.) State Journal genuine dyna-
mite bomb was found on the 18th. a
match was SO arranged that if any one.
stepped on 1t the fuse would take fire and
explode the dread implements
NEARLY complete returns Of the vote on
the proposed dependent pension bill. re-
oetved at G.. a. r headquarters at Mime
apolis on the 18th, would Indicate that the
veterans were practically unanimous in
favor Of the measure
KuMAN G. JUSTICE suffered the extreme
penalty of the law at Hywassee, Ga, on the
18th for the murder of James B. Goddard
REPORTS received at Fort Worth, Tex. on
the 18th said that the Indians were burning
the Oklahoma country. 1t was believed to
be an uprising against the ;sboomers p
a CONSOLIDATION Of the Chicago & Eastern
Illinois Railroad Company, the strawn &
Indiana State Line railroad and the Chicago.
.Danville & ST Louis railroad was effected
on the 18th under the name of the former
company.
Four trainmen were killed on the Cairo &
Yincennes road on the Doth near Vienna, Ill
AT York, Neb., seven stores, including the
Union and Masonic blocks, were burned on
the Goth. Loss, 300, 600.
FIRE completely destroyed the mining
town af CRANKY, Newton County, No., on
the 10Th Over one hundred houses were
burned.
The Jersey County Oily poor-honse was
burned on the 10th Ali the inmates es-
capped.
TIE village of Laconi, Warren County,
Ia, was almost wiped out by fire on the
10th.
The livery stable of s. B. Miller, in Chi
cago, was consumed by fire on the 10th,
and twenty-five horses were burned to
death
The arrest of a gang of counterfeiters was
made on the 10Th, near Port Huron, Mich,
two expensive plants for making bogus
silver dollars being found in their possession.
OVER portions of Ohio, Indiana and Ken
lucky phenomenal darkness fell at noon on
the 10Th, the observation being denser than
a total eclipse.
SIX men were killed by the explosion of
boiler on the 10Th in a saw-milI near Pres
colt, A. T.
FULL returns received on the 10Th Of the
recent election for members of the Legis-
lature in Virginia show that the complexion
of the new body will be as follows: SEN
ate-Democrats, 26; Republicans, Il;
81; Republicans, 80;
Independent 1; Democratic majority on
joint ballot, 81
In nineteen counties in Illinois hog chol-
era was reported on the 18th to be spread
ing, and many animals had died.
In South and West Kentucky forest fires
We're on the Goth causing great destruction.
AT Fort Scott, Kan, q fire which started
on the 10th in the Goodlander -four mill de-
stroyed property valued at $3.50, 600.